Research Themes +
Energy Technologies Area (ETA) researchers are continually building on the strong scientific foundation we have developed over the past 50 years. We address the world’s most pressing climate challenges by bringing to market energy-efficient innovations across the buildings, transportation, and industrial sectors. ETA is at the forefront of developing better batteries for electric vehicles; improving the country's aging electrical grid and innovating distributed energy and storage solutions; developing grid-interactive, efficient buildings; and providing the most comprehensive market and data analysis worldwide for renewable technologies like wind and solar.
Strategic Initiatives +
The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) Strategic Plan is the guiding force for our research and development for the next ten years. It clearly charts a path toward clean-energy solutions and focuses on five detailed Strategic Initiatives. The Plan provides an in-depth look at how ETA is accelerating research to provide affordable, clean energy to all while accomplishing deep, economy-wide decarbonization, looking to avoid a rise in global average temperature while simultaneously developing solutions to increase humanity's resilience to extreme weather volatility.
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About Us +
The Energy Technologies Area (ETA) is unique in translating fundamental scientific discoveries into scalable technology adoption. Our approach combines an understanding of the marketplace and the role of state and federal regulation and policies. ETA's research drives real-world, practical results that affect and improve the everyday lives of Americans and those across the globe. Saving energy and battling the Climate Crisis are key to the foundation of our research, which is driven by technoeconomic analysis and in-lab experimentation and discovery.

Publications

Publications by Research Area

Demand Response

Electricity Markets & Policy

Energy Efficiency

Industrial Energy Analysis

Renewable Energy

Sustainable Energy & Environmental Systems

Publications by Division

Building Technology (BTUS)

Energy Analysis (EAEI)

Energy Storage (ESDR)

2021

Lau, Jonathan, Joseph K Papp, Drew Lilley, Piyachai Khomein, Sumanjeet Kaur, Christopher Dames, Gao Liu, and Ravi S Prasher."Dynamic tunability of phase-change material transition temperatures using ions for thermal energy storage."Cell Reports Physical Science 2.10 (2021) 100613. DOI

Bashian, Nicholas H, Mateusz J Zuba, Ahamed Irshad, Shona M Becwar, Julija Vinckeviciute, Warda Rahim, Kent J Griffith, Eric T McClure, Joseph K Papp, Bryan D McCloskey, David O Scanlon, Bradley F Chmelka, Anton Van der Ven, Sri R Narayan, Louis F.J Piper, and Brent C Melot."Electrochemical Oxidative Fluorination of an Oxide Perovskite."Chemistry of Materials 33.14 (2021) 5757 - 5768. DOI

2020

Chen, Dongchang, Jinpeng Wu, Joseph K Papp, Bryan D McCloskey, Wanli Yang, and Guoying Chen."Role of Redox‐Inactive Transition‐Metals in the Behavior of Cation‐Disordered Rocksalt Cathodes."Small 16.22 (2020) 2000656. DOI

Ji, Huiwen, Jinpeng Wu, Zijian Cai, Jue Liu, Deok-Hwang Kwon, Hyunchul Kim, Alexander Urban, Joseph K Papp, Emily Foley, Yaosen Tian, Mahalingam Balasubramanian, Haegyeom Kim, Raphaële J Clément, Bryan D McCloskey, Wanli Yang, and Gerbrand Ceder."Ultrahigh power and energy density in partially ordered lithium-ion cathode materials."Nature Energy 5.3 (2020) 213 - 221. DOI

Lun, Zhengyan, Bin Ouyang, Zijian Cai, Raphaële J Clément, Deok-Hwang Kwon, Jianping Huang, Joseph K Papp, Mahalingam Balasubramanian, Yaosen Tian, Bryan D McCloskey, Huiwen Ji, Haegyeom Kim, Daniil A Kitchaev, and Gerbrand Ceder."Design Principles for High-Capacity Mn-Based Cation-Disordered Rocksalt Cathodes."Chem 6.1 (2020) 153 - 168. DOI

Rana, Jatinkumar, Joseph K Papp, Zachary Lebens-Higgins, Mateusz J Zuba, Lori A Kaufman, Anshika Goel, Richard Schmuch, Martin Winter, M. M Stanley Whittingham, Wanli Yang, Bryan D McCloskey, and Louis F.J Piper."Quantifying the Capacity Contributions during Activation of Li₂MnO₃."ACS Energy Letters 5.2 (2020) 634 - 641. DOI

2019

Li, Ning, Shawn Sallis, Joseph K Papp, James Wei, Bryan D McCloskey, Wanli Yang, and Wei Tong."Unraveling the Cationic and Anionic Redox Reactions in a Conventional Layered Oxide CathodeUnraveling the Cationic and Anionic Redox Reactions in a Conventional Layered Oxide Cathode."ACS Energy Letters 4.12 (2019) 2836 - 2842. DOI

2018

Shin, Yongwoo, Wang Hay Kan, Muratahan Aykol, Joseph K Papp, Bryan D McCloskey, Guoying Chen, and Kristin A Persson."Alleviating oxygen evolution from Li-excess oxide materials through theory-guided surface protection."Nature Communications 9.1 (2018). DOI

Kim, Haegyeom, Dong-Hwa Seo, Alexander Urban, Jinhyuk Lee, Deok-Hwang Kwon, Shou-Hang Bo, Tan Shi, Joseph K Papp, Bryan D McCloskey, and Gerbrand Ceder."Stoichiometric Layered Potassium Transition Metal Oxide for Rechargeable Potassium BatteriesStoichiometric Layered Potassium Transition Metal Oxide for Rechargeable Potassium Batteries."Chemistry of Materials 30.18 (2018) 6532 - 6539. DOI

Kitchaev, Daniil A, Zhengyan Lun, William D Richards, Huiwen Ji, Raphaële J Clément, Mahalingam Balasubramanian, Deok-Hwang Kwon, Kehua Dai, Joseph K Papp, Teng Lei, Bryan D McCloskey, Wanli Yang, Jinhyuk Lee, and Gerbrand Ceder."Design principles for high transition metal capacity in disordered rocksalt Li-ion cathodes."Energy & Environmental Science 11.8 (2018) 2159 - 2171. DOI

Lee, Jinhyuk, Daniil A Kitchaev, Deok-Hwang Kwon, Chang-Wook Lee, Joseph K Papp, Yi-Sheng Liu, Zhengyan Lun, Raphaële J Clément, Tan Shi, Bryan D McCloskey, Jinghua Guo, Mahalingam Balasubramanian, and Gerbrand Ceder."Reversible Mn²⁺/Mn⁴⁺ double redox in lithium-excess cathode materials."Nature 556.7700 (2018) 185 - 190. DOI

Kan, Wang Hay, Dongchang Chen, Joseph K Papp, Alpesh Khushalcha Shukla, Ashfia Huq, Craig M Brown, Bryan D McCloskey, and Guoying Chen."Unravelling Solid-State Redox Chemistry in Li _1.3Nb _0.3Mn _0.4O ₂ Single-Crystal Cathode Material."Chemistry of Materials 30.5 (2018) 1655 - 1666. DOI

2017

Lee, Jinhyuk, Joseph K Papp, Raphaële J Clément, Shawn Sallis, Deok-Hwang Kwon, Tan Shi, Wanli Yang, Bryan D McCloskey, and Gerbrand Ceder."Mitigating oxygen loss to improve the cycling performance of high capacity cation-disordered cathode materials."Nature Communications 8.1 (2017). DOI

Papp, Joseph K, Jason D Forster, Colin M Burke, Hyo Won Kim, Alan C Luntz, Robert M Shelby, Jeffrey J Urban, and Bryan D McCloskey."Poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) Binder Degradation in Li–O ₂ Batteries: A Consideration for the Characterization of Lithium Superoxide."The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 8.6 (2017) 1169 - 1174. DOI